Chapter 398 Exploring the Dead World
Because they didn't know what dangers there were in the world of the dead, no one dared to light the magic lamp. Richard hurriedly used the second-ring magic dark vision and found that the place they were in was also a cave. 【🆆🆆🆆🆂🆃♦♦♦♦🅲♦🅼】
There is still a stone door in the cave. There is a card slot on the stone door, and the ruby ring is intact and set in the card slot.
Richard took off the ring, looked at the dusty world of the dead, led everyone out of the cave, and began to carefully explore the surrounding situation.
Although everyone is a high-level professional, the speed of exploring the world of the dead is still very slow, and every step must be carefully considered and taken with caution.
The three-ring magic used by magicians can only hide the aura from detection by low-level and medium-level undead. Once everyone's whereabouts are noticed by high-level undead with wisdom, the location of the undead passage may be exposed.
If the undead king discovers the coordinates of this plane passage, and the undead passage happens to be not completely destroyed, the undead king can pass through the plane passage and invade the dawn plane in reverse.
Although the seal arranged by Shao Gongyuan is very powerful and ingenious, it is inferior to the method of the Undead Lord. Fortunately, Shao Gongyuan left a backup plan. Once Richard uses the Star Sword, he can destroy the plane passage. In fact, he took the initiative to close the plane channel.
After Richard and others walked out of the cave, they walked more than ten kilometers south and soon discovered a stronghold where the undead gathered.
Sylph was the most agile and decided to investigate this undead stronghold first.
Richard and Undine used optical invisibility and breath sealing techniques on Sylph respectively, and Sylph suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Sylph is already a legend, with an agility attribute of over 20 points. If she breaks out at full speed, her speed will be extremely fast.
In the blink of an eye, Sylph penetrated deep into the undead stronghold. Her movements were not only fast but also very light. However, the high-level undead who owned this stronghold were not very smart and did not notice it.
About half an hour later, Sylph successfully returned and whispered: "This stronghold is a cemetery of the undead. There are three high-level undead inside. They are all creatures without intelligence. We can easily destroy them."
"Don't take action yet. There may be intelligent undead creatures nearby. If the intelligent undead creatures discover the abnormality, we will also be in trouble."
Richard spread out the map, quietly marked it, and then continued to lead everyone in the investigation.
Entering the world of the dead, Richard found that the density of the dead here was indeed very high.
After walking more than ten kilometers south from the Skeleton Tomb, we discovered another mummy nest.
Compared to the most common skeletons in the undead world, mummies have very weak vision, are more powerful than skeletons in combat, and possess corpse poison, making them relatively difficult to deal with.
This time it was Sylph who took action again to investigate the mummy's lair.
There are two high-level undead creatures in the mummy's lair. The number of mummies adds up to about three hundred. With the strength of Richard and others, it can be regarded as a relatively easy undead stronghold to defeat.
Just at the beginning of the investigation, the expedition team discovered two undead creature strongholds.
The expedition team are all high-level professionals with far more energy than ordinary people. Even though it has been more than half a day since they entered the world of the dead, no one is tired at all.
After leaving the mummy's lair and continuing to walk for three hours, everyone discovered a towering palace complex twenty kilometers away from the mummy's lair.
The undead in this palace are obviously more powerful and difficult to deal with than the skeletons in the cemetery and the mummies in the cave.
Facing this opponent, even Sylph's face looked a little solemn this time, and she started to test cautiously.
The investigation lasted for four hours. Undine and Sutton already had some worries on their faces, and even Richard was a little impatient. He asked William to meet Sylph near the palace, ready to fight at any time.
Just when everyone's endurance was almost exhausted, Sylph finally returned successfully.
"How is it going?"
Sylph whispered: "The situation in the palace is a bit troublesome. At the core is a sleeping corpse demon. It should have certain intelligence. Judging from the level, it is estimated to be a legendary undead creature. There are a huge group of corpse demons inside the palace complex. The total number is several thousand.”
After hearing what Sylph had detected, Richard thought to himself: "We left the plane passage and walked about fifty-five kilometers south, and found the legendary undead creature. The density of the undead in this world is too high. "
"Don't go to the south yet. I think we should use the plane passage as the starting point and turn around and look to the east first."
William thought for a moment and put forward his own opinion.
In fact, with the strength of Harland's expedition team, it is not troublesome to enter the corpse palace and kill this suspected legendary undead creature.
Richard and Sophia can release starlight bombs six times. Starlight bombs are very powerful to clear out miscellaneous soldiers and can solve most troubles.
Sylph, William, Sutton, and Undine are also very strong professionals. With the assistance of Thoros, Wilde, Ruola, Wendy, and others, they have enough power to defeat the Corpse Palace.
However, Richard wanted to obtain resources in the world of the dead for a long time and was not willing to make a one-time deal. Therefore, he was not completely sure and was not willing to fight rashly.
The power of the star bomb is so great that it can be easily detected even from a hundred kilometers away. Once the noise is too big, everyone is at risk of leaking it. If the top brass such as the legendary lich is alerted, it will cause trouble for future exploration of the undead world.
The expedition team adopted William's advice and carefully bypassed the corpse palace. After walking eastward for more than 20 kilometers along the corpse palace, the expedition team made new discoveries.
This time, it was the ghouls that appeared. Sylph once again lived up to expectations and obtained intelligence from the ghoul tombs. It was found that there was only one high-level undead in the ghoul tombs, and the number of ghouls was very small, weaker than that of the skeleton cemetery.
Inside the dead world, there are not only various undead nests, but also many scattered undead in the wild, but most of these undead are low-level undead creatures. With Richard and others deliberately avoiding them, low-level undead creatures could not find their whereabouts at all.
After crossing the ghoul tombs and continuing to walk eastward for more than ten kilometers, Richard and others saw living creatures for the first time.
In addition to undead creatures, there are also some special creatures that absorb negative energy in the dead world, such as death spiders, scarabs, etc.
What appeared in the eyes of Richard and others was a pyramid. The pyramid should have been the nest of mummies, but after Sylph's investigation, he found that there were no mummies in the pyramid, but a large number of scarabs lived there.
Scarabs are a special type of magical creature. This creature is not of high level. Like the purple head peak, they are all considered magical insects, but they are very troublesome to deal with.
Especially in the special environment of the dead world, there is no benefit. Richard can't fight these dung beetles at all.
After crossing the pyramid and walking east for about 20 kilometers, Richard and others found the three-headed dog of hell.
The three-headed dog of hell is also a special high-level magic beast. When it grows up, its professional level is equivalent to the ninth level. The favorite food of this magic beast is soul fire, and it likes to live in a plane with abundant negative energy.
The adult three-headed dog of hell is very tall, and its body is similar to that of Tyrannosaurus. This magic beast can spray a black smoke, which is extremely corrosive and can turn the corpse of the prey into blood and water, and the soul becomes his dessert.
The hellhound not only has wisdom, but also has extremely powerful vision and sense of smell. Although the scouting Sylph has spells such as optical invisibility and breath sealing, the breath of life on her body still allows the hellhound to discover it.
As if it smelled the breath of its prey, the hellhound opened its mouth and was about to roar silently, but Sylph had already decisively shot out the elven feather arrow.
Sylph's archery level is no less than Richard and Soros. After being promoted to Legend, she is even one level higher than them, because her mental power has been greatly improved, and she can already control magic arrows.
In order to shoot the hellhound with an arrow unexpectedly, Sylph used a high-level enchanted arrow. This arrow is already a seventh-level enchanted item. It not only has strong penetration, but also has magic damage. If it hits the vital point, even the ninth-level monster hell with thick skin and flesh cannot be spared.
The arrow shot by Sylph was extremely fast, like a bullet, and arrived in front of the hellhound in the blink of an eye, aiming at its mouth, trying to shoot through the hellhound's head.
At the critical moment of life and death, the hellhound's eyes released a red light, which was the seven-ring magic negative energy rainbow light in its body.
In a flash, the negative energy rainbow light accurately hit the high-level enchanted arrow, and a burst of sound came from the arrow head, and the arrow shaft of the lower material grade shattered instantly.
Found that the magic arrow continued to break the red light barrier, and a trace of space ripples appeared on the hellhound's body. In an instant, the hellhound appeared hundreds of meters away, which was surprisingly the four-ring magic shapeshifting.
Found that the enemy was much stronger than he expected, the hellhound was about to escape, and Richard had already released the three-ring magic immobilization technique on it.
Even though the hellhound had a high magic resistance, the time it was immobilized was very short. But this moment of time had given Sylph enough opportunities.
The magic arrow circled in the air, like a flash of lightning, and shot at the hellhound again.
When the hellhound just got rid of the entanglement of the immobilization spell, the magic arrow had accurately shot into the hellhound's mind, and the magic flame released by the arrow instantly burned the hellhound's brain dry.
After killing this powerful monster, Richard immediately put the body of the hellhound into the storage bag.
Compared with ordinary monsters, the blood and flesh of the hellhound are full of negative energy, which cannot be eaten by humans, and the magic core can only be used in special places, but the canine teeth and eyeballs are precious spellcasting materials.
In fact, for the necromancer, the body of the hellhound is more precious than the body of the ninth-level monster. The body of the hellhound is easy to make a corpse demon, and the combat power of this corpse demon is stronger than that of the steel golem. In addition to the body of the hellhound, the remaining materials are also easy to collect.
Although Harland Territory has the inheritance of the Necromancer, it has no connection with the Necromancer Organization, so the corpse of the three-headed dog of hell naturally cannot be converted into cash through the Necromancer.
Richard has a bright future, so naturally he does not need to specialize in the methods of the Necromancer. The Necromancer in the Dawn Plane is hated by everyone, and Richard is a duke and a nobleman, and does not want to be associated with the Necromancer.
In order to avoid leaking his tracks and letting the intelligent high-level undead nearby notice him, Richard plans to store the corpse of the three-headed dog of hell in the Starlight Bottle and wait until he returns to the Dawn Plane to deal with it.
After killing the three-headed dog of hell, everyone was more careful on the road, and continued to walk for more than ten kilometers and found the ghost cave.
Compared with the undead with flesh, ghosts are more difficult to deal with.
Especially for warrior-type professionals, the means to deal with the enemy are relatively simple, and there is no way to deal with this kind of undead creature.
Through careful investigation of the Ghost Cave, the expedition team has confirmed that there are no legendary undead in the Ghost Cave, and the number of ghosts is not large. Relying on the magic means of Richard and others, it is not difficult to clean up the Ghost Cave.
After investigating the Ghost Cave, Richard estimated the distance and found that he walked about 60 kilometers east from the Corpse Demon Palace.
After finding that the investigation in the east was almost done, everyone discussed and decided to turn north from the Ghost Cave.
The enemy is strong and we are weak in the dead world. Otherwise, we can take a magic hot air balloon to investigate in the air without such trouble. We can quickly investigate the surrounding terrain and the distribution of the forces of the undead creatures.
Unfortunately, there are many intelligent undead creatures in the dead world. In order to keep secrets, Richard and others can only hide in the dark. If we take action near the plane channel, we must ensure that we cut the grass and eradicate it. If we fail to do this, we must return to the Dawn Plane, close the plane channel, and destroy the stone door with the Sword of Starlight to completely eliminate this hidden danger.
Unable to rely on the magic hot air balloon for aerial reconnaissance, the expedition team could only rely on ground reconnaissance to obtain intelligence, and they had to try to avoid various undead creatures along the way, and the reconnaissance speed was relatively slow.
In 24 hours a day, they only reconnaissance six undead strongholds and walked about 120 kilometers.
After turning north from the ghost cave, Richard saw that everyone was a little tired, so he rested for a while in a hill. In the undead world, of course, everyone couldn't sleep soundly, so they could only take turns to stand guard and rest for one or two hours. Compared with the magician with strong mental power, the state of melee professionals is relatively worse if they don't rest for a long time.
After a short rest, everyone walked about 20 kilometers north and found an undead stronghold. The undead here are mainly skeleton warriors, but the leader is a wise skeleton mage. In order to avoid the skeleton mage noticing the abnormality, Richard and others carefully detoured more than ten kilometers.
Walking northward for more than ten kilometers from the Bone Tower, we found the lair of the Death Knight. The Death Knight is a high-level soldier among the undead. There are quite a few Death Knights in this lair, only a dozen in total, but it is very troublesome to deal with them.
Walking northward for 25 kilometers along the Death Knight's lair, Richard and his party discovered the Evil Eye Cave.
In this cave, there are more than 30 undead creatures called Evil Eyes.
Evil Eyes are magical soldiers among undead creatures. Richard had seen Evil Eyes in person when he fought against the undead in the Princess's Tomb a few years ago. In that battle, in order to avoid a large number of casualties among soldiers, Richard released starlight bombs and killed a large number of Death Knights and Evil Eyes.
Walking northward for about 60 kilometers, according to estimates, they are now roughly on the same line as the plane channel. It has taken a day and a half to enter the undead world for reconnaissance. After discussing with everyone, Richard decided to turn around and rush back.
On the way back, everyone also found a zombie lair.
The strength of the undead in the zombie nest is also average, with only two high-level undead without intelligence. It would be very easy for Richard and others to clear this place.
After two days of investigation, the situation of the undead world opened everyone's eyes. Through careful investigation, more than a dozen undead strongholds were recorded on the map. As the investigation range became larger and the map became clearer, Richard could send a team to eliminate an undead stronghold at one time.
By eliminating an undead stronghold, soul crystals can be harvested. The Styx potion refined can not only cultivate magicians in the Harland territory, but also be sold in exchange for resources.